Top 20 Best Alchemist Beats

The Alchemist is one of the most high profile producers for rap artists who wants to retain a sense of pure Hip-Hop in their music. His beats are stylized by heavy sampling, active riffs and drums. In no particular order, here are 20 of the best Alchemist beats.

Did You Know?

His producer title was given to him by a rapper friend because he was into the scientific side of music production.

Along with Evidence of Dilated Peoples, Shifty Shellshock of Crazy Town and Scott Caan (star of HBO’s Entourage and Hawaii Five-O, and son of James Caan), they were all part of a rap group called The Whooligans.

The Whooligans toured with Cypress Hill and House Of Pain.

The Alchemist was mentored by DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill’s, who educated him on how to use a sampler and mixer.

The Akai MPC3000 was The Alchemist’s first MPC (music production center).

He’s one of the contributing producers of the game GTA: Chinatown Wars.

Despite producing for big name artists such as Nas, Snoop Dogg and Eminem, he still continues to produce for underground acts and remains loyal to Dilated Peoples, Cypress Hill and Crazy Town.

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